hints on shell string expansion ?

[Nicolas Rachinsky]

* Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at icir.org> [2003-07-07 00:46 -0700]:
> but i because the string of actions is used in several places,
> I would love to find a way to group actions into a single
> variable and then write something like this
> 
> 	actions="allow 'deny log' 'pipe 10'"
> 	for act in $actions ; do
> 		echo "add $act ip from 1.2.3.4 to 5.6.7.8"
> 	done


actions="allow 'deny log' 'pipe 10'"

eval "for act in $actions ; do"'
	echo "add $act ip from 1.2.3.4 to 5.6.7.8"
done'

But I'm shure there are better ways.
Nicolas